Top (disambiguation)
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A top
is a spinning toy.
Top may also refer to:
Top
A top is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point. This motion is produced in the most simple forms of top by twirling the stem using the fingers. More sophisticated tops are spun by by holding the axis firmly while pulling a string or twisting a stick or pushing an auger as shown...
is a spinning toy.
Top may also refer to:
- Top (clothing)Top (clothing)A top is clothing that covers the upper human body from the neck to the waistline, especially that of women. Tops are sometimes as short as mid-torso, and as long as mid-thigh. Men's tops are generally paired with pants, and women's with pants or skirts...
, clothing that is designed to be worn over the torso - Top (sailing ship)Top (sailing ship)On a traditional square rigged ship, the top is the platform at the upper end of each mast. This is not the masthead "crow's nest" of the popular imagination – above the mainmast is the main-topmast, main-topgallant-mast and main-royal-mast, so that the top is actually about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way...
, a part of a ship's rigging - Master SergeantMaster SergeantA master sergeant is the military rank for a senior non-commissioned officer in some armed forces.-Israel Defense Forces:Rav samal rishoninsignia IDF...
, in the United States Marine Corps (nickname) - First SergeantFirst SergeantFirst sergeant is the name of a military rank used in many countries, typically a senior non-commissioned officer.-Singapore:First Sergeant is a Specialist in the Singapore Armed Forces. First Sergeants are the most senior of the junior Specialists, ranking above Second Sergeants, and below Staff...
, in the United States Army (nickname) - The Top (album)The Top (album)The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984.-Overview:The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.Smith then took a radical shift in his music...
, a 1984 album by The Cure - Top (comics)Top (comics)The Top is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Universe. One of the earliest members of the Silver Age Flash's "Rogues' Gallery", the character debuted in The Flash #122 .-Fictional character biography:...
, a supervillain character from the DC Comics universe - Top and bottom (slang), a person who assumes the dominant, penetrating or assertive role in sex or BDSM
Math and physics
- Top (category theory), a category of topological spaces or topological manifolds
- Top (mathematics)Top (mathematics)In the context of a module M over a ring R, the top of M is the largest semisimple quotient module of M if it exists.For finite-dimensional k-algebras , if rad denotes the intersection of all proper maximal submodules of M , then the top of M is M/rad...
, in module theory, the largest semisimple quotient of a module - Greatest elementGreatest elementIn mathematics, especially in order theory, the greatest element of a subset S of a partially ordered set is an element of S which is greater than or equal to any other element of S. The term least element is defined dually...
, in lattice theory, the greatest element in a partially ordered set - Top quarkTop quarkThe top quark, also known as the t quark or truth quark, is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Like all quarks, the top quark is an elementary fermion with spin-, and experiences all four fundamental interactions: gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and...
, the third-generation up-type quark
Geography
- Top, OghuzTop, OghuzTop is a municipality and village in the Oghuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 370....
, Azerbaijan - Top, ZangilanTop, ZangilanTop is a village in the Zangilan Rayon of Azerbaijan....
, Azerbaijan - Top RiverTop RiverThe Top River is a tributary of the Olt River in Romania.-References:* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti* Institutul de Meteorologie şi Hidrologie - Rîurile României - Bucureşti 1971* Trasee turistice - judeţul Braşov...
, a tributary of the Olt River in Romania
Computers
- top (Unix)Top (Unix)top is a program found in many Unix-like operating systems. It produces an ordered list of running processes selected by user-specified criteria, and updates it periodically. Default ordering by CPU usage, and only the top CPU consumers shown top shows how much processing power and memory are...
, a standard Unix program - Top typeTop typeThe top type in type theory, commonly abbreviated as top or by the down tack symbol , is the universal type—that type which contains every possible object in the type system of interest. The top type is sometimes called the universal supertype as all other types in any given type system are...
, in computer science type theory, the data type containing all others